The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.